Chapter 17: The Bloody Battle of the Sword Gate
Lin Kejia led people on a rapid march all the way, but the road was dangerous when it was dark. By the time the Sword Gate was closed, it was already the end of the year and the beginning of the hour. Seeing that Gou Xingwang was actually on the main road in front of the Jianmen Pass, he was still far from the wall and was not discovered by the Qing army who closed it. Lin Kejia looked at the road in front of the gate and found that there was no place to hide.
Lin Kejia and Gou Xingwang had no choice, so they had to let Gou Xingwang stay away from the wall. Lin Kejia walked towards the closed door with someone scolding, and said, "Tian Chengsui really said that on that dog's day? He is not afraid that our garrison will go to the governor to sue him, and the old men who have been harming him have been running so many mountain roads in the middle of the night. ”
Hearing someone talking under the wall, he hurriedly threw a torch down, and was relieved to see that the people below were wearing the uniforms of the Qing army. But he still asked, "Who is down there?" Are you guys there? "I heard the people of the city asking. A captive had already told Lin Kejia the identity and name of the person. Lin Kejia said: "Is it Zeng Bald who closes the patrol?" Open and close the door. Tian Chengsui lied to us on that dog's day, saying that he wanted to see how quickly our defenders at Jianmen Pass reacted, and lied to us that someone was attacking Jianzhou. Zhao Shoubei is just behind, what about the boss's temper? ”
The people who closed it still didn't believe it, and said: "Tian Chengsui dares to joke about this military situation? Lin Kejia said: "Who knows? On the way, we met the person sent by Tian Chengsui and said that Tian Chengsui had asked Governor Gao for permission first, and if he arrived at Jianmen Pass and did not see us send troops to save Jianzhou, our Zhao garrison would be dismissed. Hey, what's so rambling now? Zhao Garrison is coming, and he will be beaten again without opening the door. The people who closed it already believed it when they heard what Lin Kejia said, because there was no mistake in the name and official position of the person Lin Kejia said. And Zhao Yingfu's temper is very clear.
I saw a string of torches on the official road in the distance slowly coming towards the Sword Gate. This was also discussed between Lin Kejia and Gou Xingwang, and when the two saw that there was really no place to hide, they simply asked Gou Xingwang to set up a torch in the back and pretend to be Zhao Yingfu, and now it seems that it really worked. The people who closed it were shouting for people to come down and open the door.
Lin Kejia held down his excited heart before closing the door, and the gate in front of him, which had never been broken head-on, was slowly opening the door for himself. This is a fraud, but how can it be defeated. This is the first person since ancient times. Looking at the slowly opening door, Lin Kejia slowly calmed down and calmly led the people to the closing door.
Lin Kejia walked into the gate with someone and saw that the person who greeted him was a man in his forties, not tall, with only a dozen braided hairs of Xixi on his head, and he was really a bald man. When that person saw Lin Kejia looking at him, he was also confused, why hadn't this person seen it? Seeing that all the fifty people brought by this person entered the Dao Pass, and were about to go out to meet Zhao Shoubei, the people who came in drew their knives and slashed at the robe that was opening the door. I also felt a cold neck, and I felt as if I was flying, and I saw the sword flashing near the closed door, and more than a dozen robes had fallen to the ground. Seeing this scene, I suddenly thought that these people were here to win the level! But the bald man couldn't be called.
Lin Kejia led people to cut down the defenders who opened the door, and hurriedly asked twenty people to guard the gate, and he took the remaining thirty people to attack the wall. Immediately, the Qing army guarding the wall also knew that someone was coming to cheat the pass, and launched an attack on Lin Kejia's people under the organization of their own general banner, hoping to recapture the gate. Suddenly, the sword gate closed and the door was slammed, and the sound of killing shook the sky, you came and I kept fighting, and one wanted to kill the wall and seize the pass. One wants to kill off the enemy and close the gate. Both sides are attacking with no death, and for a while they are fighting with lives for lives.
The two sides had a fierce battle next to the stairs on the wall, and Gou Xingwang heard the shouts of killing at the gate and knew that Lin Kejia had already made a move. kept urging the brigade to move quickly, and he also ran wildly with his guards. Gou Xingwang rushed into the gate and saw that Lin Kejia had brought fifty people to defraud the pass, but now there were only a dozen people. In less than a moment, more than 30 people brought by Lin Kejia died, and there were no wounded. Gou Xingwang didn't dare to think about it, so he hurriedly led people to rush up
At this moment, Lin Kejia staggered backwards, Gou Xingwang hugged him, only to see that Lin Kejia's stomach was cut and his intestines flowed out, but fortunately, the intestines were not broken, Gou Xingwang hurriedly asked someone to carry Lin Kejia out. Lin Kejia shouted: "Leave me alone, take the pass quickly." ”
Gou Xingwang also knew that he couldn't delay at this time, he only had 600 people, and he had to leave 100 people to watch the captives of Wulipo. There are less than 500 people who can come to attack the Sword Gate. If you can't take down the sword gate in one go, wait for the Qing soldiers to stabilize the situation. I'm afraid that in the end, I won't be able to survive if I take the Sword Gate Pass.
Gou Xingwang roared angrily, and danced a knife like a bright moon. Suddenly, a few Qing soldiers were cut down by Gou Xingwang, and the others were also highly motivated when they saw that the main general was brave. The Qing soldiers on the opposite side were happy to see Lin Kejia injured and falling, and just about to recapture the gate, they saw a big man rushing in from outside the door, catching Lin Kejia and handing it to the people behind, and then rushed into the crowd like crazy and slashed. Suddenly, the Qing soldiers wailed, and the other Qing soldiers were shocked by Gou Xingwang's momentum, and saw that the other people who rushed in were all fierce and fierce, like tigers falling down the mountain and being beaten and retreated.
The general banner behind him was shocked when he saw that these people were not afraid of death. But fortunately, there are not many people, under his command, under the strong attack of the Qing soldiers, more than half of the people who cheated the pass died in an instant, and the generals who deceived the pass were also injured, and their hearts were happy. In another quarter of an hour, the gate can be recaptured. When the time comes, close the gate, even if thousands of troops and horses don't want to beat this sword gate. But at this time, a fierce general rushed in from outside, and the people who beat him retreated again and again. However, there were a lot of people who died on his side just now, and there were only about twenty people who wanted to live. Seeing that he couldn't hold it, he heard a shout of killing behind him, but it was the other two general flags in the gate who brought people to support. Although the total number of people brought was only about 100, the morale of the Qing soldiers was greatly shocked when they saw that they had come to reinforcements.
On the other hand, the people led by Gou Xingwang fought once in Wulipo at night, and there was a rapid march to the Jianmen Pass, and everyone was already tired. Now I have been attacking for a while, and now I see that the Qing soldiers are coming for reinforcements. Immediately, morale dropped a little.
Gou Xingwang saw that the morale of his side was declining, and he knew that he couldn't delay. However, if you want the Qing army to be defeated quickly, you can only kill the generals of the Qing army. Gou Xingwang had already discovered the general flag dispatched behind, so he rushed towards the general flag with his guards. The general flag saw that the fierce general on the opposite side was killing him, and hurriedly retreated. Although Gou Xingwang didn't kill the general flag, the Qing soldiers saw that as soon as the general flag retreated, he followed and retreated.
As soon as the Qing soldiers retreated, they could no longer block the door when they closed the door, and they were rushed into the pass by Gou Xingwang, and the people who came to support saw that the Qing soldiers in front were retreating, and wanted to block the mouth. But at this moment, the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion rushed in behind, and at this time, the people of the Restoration Camp did not care about closing the door, and everyone killed the Qing soldiers.
After some fighting, there are only more than 300 people in the Fuming Battalion, but there are many more than the Qing soldiers. For a while, the Qing soldiers couldn't resist it, and kept retreating, and it didn't turn into a rout and fleeing for a long time. Gou Xingwang thought that this would be the end of the Jianmen Pass, but at this time, the previous prisoner said: "General, we can't stop, we are now attacking Kuzhu Pass, and there is a gate two miles to the north, and the gate directly blocks the plank road behind the mountain, which is the first gate to enter the river, and the grain is in the warehouse over there." ”
Gou Xingwang immediately felt dizzy when he heard this, but he couldn't let the Qing army continue to stay in Jianmen Pass, in that case, the captured Jianmen Pass would be meaningless. Gou Xingwang had to take the soldiers who did not restore the Ming battalion to kill the rout again, and Gou Xingwang was anxious and kept urging. Finally, before the rout army entered the gate, he caught up with the Qing soldiers, and the general of the gate saw that Gou Xingwang brought people to the palace, and wanted to fire at the Fuming battalion, but before he could load the shells, he saw that the Fuming battalion had been mixed with the Qing soldiers, so he had to give up.
In this way, Gou Xingwang rushed into the gate with the rout of the Qing soldiers, and the guards in the city hurriedly led people to kill the soldiers of the Fuming camp. At this time, Gou Xingwang felt that his limbs were filled with lead, but looking at the Qing soldiers who had killed, he had to fight mentally.
The Qing soldiers were originally taken away by Zhao Yingfu with 500 elite soldiers, and most of the people who stayed were old and weak. Just now, he had been fighting for a long time at the front door of the Sword Gate, and most of the sergeants who could stand had been killed. I finally selected a hundred people to support, but I was chased and killed all the way by the Restoration Battalion, and now there are about 200 people at the back door, and I still read that I can't fight.
But the Fuming camp is not much better, it was already very tired from attacking the front door, and now it is even more exhausting after running for two miles, if it weren't for the Qing army holding a knife to kill, they would want to fall directly to the ground and not get up. So for a while, the two sides were in a stalemate, but fortunately, Lin Kejia organized some wounded people in the back and bandaged them to come to support, but it was only about twenty. But these twenty people were the last straw that overwhelmed the Qing soldiers. Originally, the Qing soldiers could not capture the Fuming camp, but now when they saw reinforcements coming, they immediately retreated and fled. Originally, a few people were arranged by the guards to burn the grain, and as soon as they lit two fires, they saw other Qing soldiers fleeing, and the Ming army followed closely behind. One of the frightened torches also ran out of the pass with the brigade.
Gou Xingwang didn't dare to send someone to chase him, so he hurriedly asked someone to close the door, and hurriedly asked people to put out the fire and rescue food. After the fire was extinguished here, the soldiers of the Restoration Camp did not wait for Gou Xingwang's order, and fell asleep one after another, regardless of the blood on the ground.
Seeing this, Gou Xingwang also knew that the soldiers were too tired, so let people not wake them up, just let them out too cleanly. Gou Xingwang hurried to the front again, only to see that after Lin Kejia was simply bandaged, he had already commanded the injured soldiers to extinguish the fire. Let people vacate the room and wait for the soldiers in front of them to come back and rest. Gou Xingwang said: "Don't clean it yet, the soldiers on the back side are tired and fall asleep directly on the ground." Hurry up and inform the soldiers of Wulipo to enter the pass! Lin Kejia said weakly: "I have sent people recently, and I have to send some people to Jianzhou first, or we have the current manpower, as long as the troops are cleared to attack, the pass will not be able to hold." Although there are only 300 wounded soldiers in Jianzhou, it is still possible for them to send 100 sergeants and 200 people. ”
Gou Xingwang said: "Okay, you should go and rest first, I was so seriously injured, and there was no good Langzhong in the Guannei." Tomorrow you will go back to Jianzhou, no, you are injured now and can't move, and you are sending someone to Jianzhou to ask Langzhong. I'll take care of the rest. With that, Gou Xingwang asked Lin Kejia's remaining three guards to carry Lin Kejia to the room to rest.
Gou Xingwang didn't inspect the pass, and when it was about to dawn, he went to the back door to check. Gou Xingwang waited all night in fear, and did not wait for the sergeant of Wulipo to come with the prisoners. At noon, Gou Xingwang was even more worried about what accident had happened on the Wulipo side. When Gou Xingwang wanted to send a second group of scouts to inquire about the news, he found that the soldiers of Wulipo had taken prisoners to the gate. Gou Xingwang hurriedly asked the soldiers of the Fuming Battalion to lock up the prisoners first, and after Jianzhou sent people over, they would escort these prisoners to Jianzhou or Baoning. Who knows if they're reliable.
Gou Xingwang asked the soldiers again why they didn't come directly to Jianmen Pass last night. But the soldier who went to deliver the message was too tired, and he fell asleep directly on the way, and this morning the people who were still in Wulipo saw that Gou Xingwang and they did not send the news for a long time, so they asked people to go to Jianmen Pass to inquire about the news. The inquirer found the messenger on the side of the road, and after asking about the situation, he escorted the captives to Jianmen Pass. Gou Xingwang looked at the tired figure of the soldier who delivered the message, and it was not good to punish him, but he just asked him not to delay the military situation in the future. The soldier was too busy to say anything.
At this time, Lin Kejia's guards came to report that Lin Kejia began to have a fever, and he was afraid that the situation was not good. Gou Xingwang went to see Lin Kejia again. When he saw Lin Kejia's appearance, his expression was low, he should be bleeding and pale, but he didn't want to look hopeful, but now there was no clever Lang Zhong, so he had to let Lang Zhong in the army reduce Lin Kejia's fever. However, how many surgeries in the army beat Lang Zhong, and he was helpless against the situation for a while, and he was anxious to turn around. In the end, he had to send someone to ride a horse to Jianzhou to invite Langzhong, and at the same time sent someone to report the military situation and Lin Kejia's situation to Zhu Dashan in Baoning.